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Water is life as the saying goes.We use water for our day to day activities but what i could see in my locality is that the percentage of water that runs out waste daily is much more than what we use.

We were a bit late to the airport to pick them though, but we made it there about 10minutes later than the scheduled time. They did waited for long because their flight arrived far earlier than scheduled time. It was joyous when we met them finally and we quickly loaded their bags into the car and drove straight to their hotel room in Tema, a city in the capital.

Dear Partners in Development,

In our efforts in creating a better and happy world for all by helping impoverished people and communities in Ghana through our projects, the Global Giving charity has given us again a slot on their website starting from September 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010 to raise $4,000 minimum from 50 donors to be able to stay on their online fundraising platform permanently.

I begin with a question, why did two nineteen year old girls take on the mission to essentially replace the UNHCR for funding basic needs on the Buduburam Liberian Refugee camp just outside the capital city of Ghana?

Seminal Pan-African workshop about policies to support renewable energies. 

Accra, June 23, 2010. “The solar radiation Africa receives could make this continent the Saudi-Arabia of the future”. With this bold statement, Hafsat Abiola, daughter of Nigeria’s late President Elect Moshood Abiola, summarized the results of “Power Kick for Africa”, a two-day strategy workshop on renewable energy policies. The gathering was organised by the World Future Council Foundation, based in Hamburg, Germany, in cooperation with the Energy Commission of Ghana. It brought together representatives from utilities, regulators, industry and civil society from ten African countries who are determined to expand their cooperation under the umbrella of the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA). Their main point of discussion was how policy-makers can support the harvesting of abundant renewable energy and thus open the door for sustainable African development.

“If we repeat the mistakes of the developed world by realising African development mainly on the burning of fossil fuels, climate change will have a disastrous effect on our countries”, said the Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency of ECOWAS, Mahama Kappiah, at a press briefing in the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra. On the other hand, decentralised energy production through solar systems and wind farms could bring power to many remote regions, thus allowing development, creating jobs and benefitting health. Kappiah: “Solar power is reliable and can be installed easily and without the need to connect to the national electricity grid.”

Ahead of the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup on Friday, former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador and football star Didier Drogba will today publish ‘Scoring for Africa – An Alternative Guide to the World Cup’.

Hello Accrans

The IDLELO open source conference (http://idlelo.net) is taking place next week in Accra, Ghana.

I'm heading over there to present on mobile application development with Drupal and it would be great if any fellow Drupalistas would be up for a Drupal get-together over drinks.

Dear Friends and Cherished Partners,

EBENEZER, hitherto the Lord has brought us!  I am most grateful to the LORD GOD our Heavenly Father and to you for your continuous support you are giving to us in FHI Ministry.

Yesterday was world water day and all well wishers across the globe did their best with several occasions to grace the day. I will want to tackle it from my country (Ghana) for now but I will be referring to all countries at the later part of this message.